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搭在衣架上
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition 含詞賦 With rhapsody

搭在衣架上 Clothes On The Rack

那nà些xiē女nǚ子zǐ見jiàn水shuǐ又yòu清qīng又yòu熱rè,便biàn要yào洗xǐ浴yù,即jí一yì齊qí脫tuō了le衣yī服fú,搭dā在zài衣yī架jià上shàng,一yì齊qí下xià去qù。被bèi行xíng者zhě看kàn見jiàn:那nà些xiē女nǚ子zǐ见jiàn水shuǐ又yòu清qīng又yòu热rè,便biàn要yào洗xǐ浴yù,即jí一yì齐qí脱tuō了le衣yī服fú,搭dā在zài衣yī架jià上shàng,一yì齐qí下xià去qù。被bèi行xíng者zhě看kàn见jiàn:

褪tuì放fàng紐niǔ扣kòu兒ér,解jiě開kāi羅luó帶dài結jié。褪tuì放fàng纽niǔ扣kòu儿ér,解jiě开kāi罗luó带dài结jié。
酥sū胸xiōng白bái似sì銀yín,玉yù體tǐ渾hún如rú雪xuě。酥sū胸xiōng白bái似sì银yín,玉yù体tǐ浑hún如rú雪xuě。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà些xiē女nǚ子zǐ見jiàn水shuǐ又yòu清qīng又yòu熱rè,便biàn要yào洗xǐ浴yù,即jí一yì齊qí脫tuō了le衣yī服fú,搭dā在zài衣yī架jià上shàng,一yì齊qí下xià去qù。 那nà些xiē女nǚ子zǐ见jiàn水shuǐ又yòu清qīng又yòu热rè,便biàn要yào洗xǐ浴yù,即jí一yì齐qí脱tuō了le衣yī服fú,搭dā在zài衣yī架jià上shàng,一yì齐qí下xià去qù。

The women, seeing the water so clear and so warm, wanted at once to bathe. They stripped off their clothes together, hung them on the rack, and went down into it all together.

一齊 twice in one sentence — together, in one movement. The clothes go onto the rack Pilgrim is already sitting on, and the book does not point this out.

被bèi行xíng者zhě看kàn見jiàn: 被bèi行xíng者zhě看kàn见jiàn:

And Pilgrim saw:

被 makes it passive — it was seen by Pilgrim. Five characters, and the grammar quietly puts him in the position of somebody who could not help it.

褪tuì放fàng紐niǔ扣kòu兒ér,解jiě開kāi羅luó帶dài結jié。 褪tuì放fàng纽niǔ扣kòu儿ér,解jiě开kāi罗luó带dài结jié。

Buttons slipped loose, silk sashes untied.

褪 is tuì, to slip a thing off. 解 is jiě, to untie. The couplet opens the way the kickball poem did — with the hands, doing something small.

酥sū胸xiōng白bái似sì銀yín,玉yù體tǐ渾hún如rú雪xuě。 酥sū胸xiōng白bái似sì银yín,玉yù体tǐ浑hún如rú雪xuě。

Soft breasts white as silver; jade bodies all over like snow.

渾 means wholly, all through. Both halves compare skin to a mineral — silver, then snow — which is the standard vocabulary and keeps the description at a distance from any actual body.


總評 Commentary

The clothes come off and go onto the rack, and Pilgrim is sitting on the rack. He planned that two passages ago and the book lets you work it out.

The grammar of the second line is worth a moment. It does not say Pilgrim looked; it says the sight was seen by him — a passive construction that puts him in the position of somebody who happened to be there. He is a fly on a clothes rack he chose deliberately, and the sentence is being tactful on his behalf.